US company agrees to fine for hiring children to clean slaughterhouses
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US Government Agrees It's Fine to Hire Children To Clean Slaughterhouses
As long as you pay them their cut.
Today I learned that you can “agree” to fines.
Well, the alternative is to fight it in court.
It’s part of getting a traffic ticket. Agree, confess, mail your check to the judge. Or take time off to show up and contest it.
You've never heard of a consent decree or plea bargain? They're common legal tools to avoid lengthy and expensive trials.
And a mandate to no longer employ minors? Or what? Another $650,000 fine?
This is not just bad hours, it is dangerous working conditions. Putting a group that is characterized as having extremely poor risk assessment skills , struggle to even really understand consequences of actions, and making them work with heavy machinery that is extremely dangerous to life and limb. THAT is egregious neglect of child labor laws.
Wtf sorry what????? This is a growing problem in America HOW, WHY???
Republicans will always undermine regulations, including regulations on child labor.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/12/child-labor-is-on-the-rise
Ooooh wow thank you for that. An arbitrary burden on parents, that's rich.
Imagine treating your children like this and then saying shit like “America is the greatest country in the world”. Between this and school shooting responses proves that America doesn’t give a fuck about its kids. Fucking mind boggling world we live in
Oh don't worry, these are likely mostly migrant children, so those people believe America is great because of this.
Also, they were probably separated from their parents at the border and haven't seen them in years so I don't think they're saying that.
Ain't this country grand?
They don't like immigrants and US citizens are starting to demand higher wages.
Gotta find new workers to exploit to keep wages low.
What are we even doing man. When I read headlines like this it’s just embarrassing to be a US citizen.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Tennessee-based sanitation company has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities in Iowa and Virginia.
The US labor department announced on Monday that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC entered into a consent judgment, in which the company agrees to nearly $650,000 in civil penalties and the court-ordered mandate that it no longer employ minors.
The labor department alleged that Fayette used 15 underage workers at a Perdue Farms plant in Accomac, Virginia, and at least nine at Seaboard Triumph Foods in Sioux City, Iowa.
The work included sanitizing dangerous equipment like head splitters, jaw pullers and meat bandsaws in hazardous conditions where animals are killed and rendered.
The agreement stipulates that Fayette will hire a third-party consultant to monitor the company’s compliance with child labor laws for at least three years, as well as to facilitate trainings.
The labor department has called attention to a growing list of child labor violations across the country, including the fatal mangling of a 16-year-old working at a Mississippi poultry plant, the death of a 16-year-old after an accident at a sawmill in Wisconsin, and last year’s report of more than 100 children illegally employed by Packers Sanitation Services Inc, or PSSI, across 13 meatpacking plants.
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I feel like some crimes, like this one maybe, should result in the organization being nationalized and those in decision making positions barred from working in the industry.